Reading With Pictures held four exciting panels at San Diego Comic-Con. Thank you to everyone who attended! We appreciate your enthusiasm and support and hope you all had a fabulous time at Comic-Con. As promised, below you will find links to information about all of the panelists and the resources that were mentioned during our discussions. If you have photos, audio, or video of any of our panels to share, please email info@readingwithpictures.org. Thank you to everyone who came out — you’re awesome!
Panels:
- Comics Are For Everyone: Helping Every Student See Themselves in the Medium
- Content Literacy: Teaching History and Social Studies with Graphic Novels
- Comics Make Kids Smarter: Exploring Data Driven Success in the Comics Classroom
Panelists:
- Tracy Edmunds, Curriculum Director, Reading With Pictures: http://tracyedmunds.com/
- Josh Elder, Creative Director and Publisher, Reading With Pictures: http://www.readingwithpictures.org/2012/02/bio-josh-elder/
- Nathan Hale, author of Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales: http://hazardoustales.blogspot.com/
- Jonathan Hennessey, author of The U.S. Constitution: A Graphic Adaptation, The Gettysburg Address: A Graphic Adaption, and The Comic Book Story of Beer: http://www.jonathanhennessey.com/
- John Green, cartoonist and co-creator of of Quicken Forbidden, Jax Epoch, and Teen Boat: http://www.johngreenart.com/
- Meryl Jaffe, author of Raising a Reader for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund: http://cbldf.org/librarian-tools/using-graphic-novels-in-education/
- Eric Kallenborn: http://theothercomicbookteacher.com/
- Tom Racine, host of Tall Tale Radio: http://www.talltaleradio.com/
- Sean Southey, PCI Media Impact: http://mediaimpact.org/staff/sean-southey/
- Ronell Whitaker: http://thecomicbookteacher.com/
Comics Uniting Nations website: http://www.comicsunitingnations.org/
Resources from Reading With Pictures
- SDCC History Panel Handout 2015 (Graphic Novels for Teaching History and Social Studies)
- ALA Award winning comics
- Eisner Winners – Youth Categories 2015
- Comics with Female Leads
- Integrating Comics Into the Common Core
- Graphic Texts for Teaching the Common Core – Elementary
- Comics & Graphic Novel Recommendations
- Comics for Teaching in the Content Areas
- Why Comics? Research and Rationale
Resources from the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund
- Using Graphic Novels in Education
- Raising a Reader: How Comics and Graphic Novels Can Help Your Kids Love to Read!